So, 2009 - late 2020. (and Election Day 2020 just felt like an ironic day to pop this up)

That is, believe it or not, a record for Fur Affinity staff. Short of Dragoneer himself. Pretty danged good run.

Really, this came down to RL work and RL opportunity. Back when I originally started as forum staff back in 2009, and later got offered to pick up duties on the main-site, I had a radically different schedule and workplace availability. I could reach the net easy, at any time, and catch stuff fast (for the most part). My hours have always been odd, even back in culinary school days. But they synced up with the requirements well enough. Even my full-time work had a ton of dead-space amidst the day's pace. So pretty anytime something popped up of note in my area of responsibility on the site I could respond. Or on my days off, they were genuine days off. I could devote a good space of time to catching up on things.

But over the last year or so, that's gone through a pretty radical change. As my thread ( https://forums.furaffinity.net/thre.....thing.1665489/ ) noted, I've gone from hospitality to budtending. And most dispensaries are mini-fortresses. So I'm spending most of my day in a space that has very limited reception at the best moments, and spotty reception at others. Which means if stuff started hitting the fan, I was at less availability to respond. And while staff do have communication outside the site and forum to keep coordinated, even that was reduced for me for most of the work-cycle.

FA internal-wise: Decisions were made I disagreed with, strongly. But despite my objections, they were enacted. That put me in the position of having to enforce issues or potentially take action on users that had already accused me of bias.

Limited time, limited availability, a focus on RL details (including some pretty danged big potentials that I wouldn't want to distract from), and now internal decisions I didn't agree with. That's a pretty solid mesh of circumstances for stepping back and stepping down as the best move possible.

So yeah, so it goes. Still a damned nice track-record though. Nearly 11 years as staff on one of the most noted sites for furry material on the net is a pretty solid run. It's been interesting, and it's been educational. It's given a lot of perspective on other bigger sites, like youtube, DA, and other content-producer focused venues. It's a perspective that I wouldn't otherwise have on community moderation and the back-and-forth of community users and site runners. It's a perspective that I'll hold, likely for the rest of my life, as something I have in mind anytime there's internet drama or such involving sites and their moderators. It gives another level of consideration for what a community of a site or fandom pushes for, and what the host can actually nail down.

I'll still be around the main site and the forum, sure. But RL has made itself all the more important. So it's time to heade the call and focus there. Plus finish up my seriously backlogged commission obligation. Also pick at my novel aspirations, and see if I can work the thing into a complete volume.